<p>My wife is from Spain, and she laughed for a half-hour when we were watching a baseball game on TV and they were talking about a player named Clete Thomas. Apparently “Clete” sounds rather suggestive to the Spanish ear. It didn’t help any when I said “Clete” was short for “Cletus.”</p>
<p>I don’t see Orville making a comeback soon, either. Or Wilbur, for that matter.</p>
<p>WHEW! Some of these names are real doozies…how about my Aunt Olive?</p>
<p>I recently had a student named Endless in my class. And another named Evenly. Also, Coureur, at least one Ebenezer.</p>
<p>edit: so I should take back my guesses on what won’t be coming back, I guess.</p>
<p>But you know, all it would take is for some well regarded (sane, non-druggy) celebrity to name her baby Cletus or Orville or Myrtle or Olive, and all the sudden it would be consided an adorable name.</p>
<p>I just met a kid whose first name is “Mister”.</p>
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<p>LOL! I hadn’t even thought of it that way, just what an ugly spelling of a beautiful name.</p>
<p>I just had occasion to look at the list of girls in my D’s cheer gym. Most are between 8-12 years old: More Madisons and Kelseys than I was willing to count.</p>
<p>We know both male and female Baileys and Taylors.</p>
<p>missypie–my daughter is on cheer too. Tons and tons of Madisons as well as a few Madelines.</p>
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<p>I don’t care WHO names their child Cletus, Orville, or Olive. Those names just aren’t adorable. Myrtle is okay; not great, but one could live with it. (Crepe myrtles are my favorite trees so the name brings to mind beautiful flowers.) I would hope that a parent would name their beautiful baby girl Olivia rather than Olive. </p>
<p>Floyd is another of those family names we’ve let left in the past. I always think of Floyd the Barber.</p>
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<p>Also 3-6 each of Katelyn (spelled 4 or 5 different ways), Lindsay (spelled three different ways) and McKenzey (spelled 3 different ways.)</p>
<p>Yeah, some names are ruined by Tv/movie references…in addition to Floyd the Barber, Arnold the Green Acres pig.</p>
<p>We considered Bailey for our 2nd daughter. It was my grandfather’s middle name.
My kids seem to know millions of Alex’s, male and female.</p>
<p>missypie–bunches of Makenzies & a number of Sydneys in that age group, also. Have a few families around us w/both a Makenzie & Sydney (sisters).</p>
<p>D2 has a name that is/was traditionally a boy’s name. Because my H didn’t think he would call her by her full name, we chose a unique spelling that would lend itself to shortening to a girls name. DH intended to call D2 by this nickname.</p>
<p>As luck would have it, two things happened. We know five girls with this “boys” name (each spelled differently); and DH has never used the shortened/girl name for D2.</p>
<p>D2 really likes her name and the unique spelling…even though she can never buy any “personalized” item off-the-rack.</p>
<p>Lol, DH and I taught a preschool class at church 10-12 yrs. ago. There were three Madisons in the class of twelve kids. I guess they are all cheerleaders now.
We also have an 11 yr. old neice named Madison. She’s a dancer.
Other neice is Kaitlyn!</p>
<p>Why are there so many girls named Madison?</p>
<p>I taught a class a few years ago that had two Chanels. I kept waiting for 3 others to show up, so I could call the last one Chanel No. 5. </p>
<p>My grandparents generation had an Edith and Edna, which I always thought were ugly names. </p>
<p>As for Madison – is it possible the movie Splash had a large impact? The mermaid played by Darryl Hannah was named Madison.</p>
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<p>Lesbia was probably more popular back when people still studied Latin in school, because Lesbia is the pseudonym the old Roman poet Catullus gave his lady love in his famous love poems. (In real life her name was Clodia and she was married to another man).</p>
<p>I know a Harry- he’s the 3rd and his oldest is Harry the 4th, had to pass along those first, middle and last names, I guess (they’re solid middle class).</p>
<p>Madison has given way to Addison in the past couple of years. A TV character AND a disease, what’s not to love? Make it uneek by speiling it Addysyn if you like.</p>
<p>Olive reminds me of the little girl in Little Miss Sunshine who was fabulous so it’s a lot less negative to me, not that I would choose it.</p>